“These are two issues which we intend to start the campaign this year and get them implemented in right earnest. The act mandates that married men and women will have to compulsorily furnish marriage certificates for all official purposes. We need a kind of a social revolution,” he said. Syiem said a law was required to be enacted on equitable distribution of self-acquired property and ancestral wealth to economically empower men and women who hitherto are left without any share in the self-acquired property and ancestral wealth. Many Khasi men do not have any say in self-acquired property and ancestral wealth, he said.

Source: The Telegraph January 01, 2020 19:52 UTC